meany

mean +‎ -y

meany (plural meanies)

1. Alternative spelling of meanie.

• Eyman, Maney, Mayen, Mayne, manye, yamen, yeman

From Middle English meyne, from Anglo-Norman meine, meignee and Old French mesne, from Vulgar Latin *mānsiōnāta.

• IPA^(key): /miːˈniː/

meany

1. household, family
2. folks, people

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56